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Rick Pearson

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Rick Pearson

@rap30

Part of Chicago Tribune team that won 2026 local reporting Pulitzer. Lifetime Achievement Award/Chicago Headline Club-SPJ. Tweets are mine. Trolls get blocked.

Chicago, IL

Joined May 2008

Rick Pearson
@rap30
May 6, 2025
Advisory from IL Dem Gov JB Pritzker’s office on planned Wednesday visit of Homeland Security Secy Kristi Noem to Springfield: “We would urge all pet owners in the region to make sure all of your beloved animals are under watchful protection while the Secretary is in the region.”
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Rick Pearson
@rap30
Feb 19, 2021
GOP Rep Adam Kinzinger on Will County GOP vote to censure him: “"Maybe if the Will County GOP spent the same amount of time and energy helping local Republicans as they do with petty censure votes to go after those that vote their conscience, they might actually win a few races.”
Rick Pearson
@rap30
Jul 21, 2019
This is on the Illinois Republican County Chairmen’s Association’s Facebook site:
Rick Pearson
@rap30
Aug 8, 2019
Trump tells reporters on AF1 he is considering giving disgraced and imprisoned former IL Gov Rod Blagojevich a pardon and commutation for federal corruption conviction. Blago, a “you’re fired” Apprentice guest, tried to extort children’s hospital and sell Obama’s senate seat.
Rick Pearson
@rap30
Jun 9, 2018
I’ll miss this quote most among all the others at Tribune Tower. No one was more ostracized by a partisan-motivated press than Lincoln, a subscriber to the ⁦@chicagotribune⁩ which helped make him president.
Rick Pearson
@rap30
Oct 20, 2022
From an Illinois conservative website's review of the Tuesday night governor debate at WGN-TV studios: "Chicago media polls say Governor JB Pritzker leading by double digits in the race, but the crowd's enthusiasm was behind Senator Bailey." There was no studio audience.
Rick Pearson
@rap30
Feb 22, 2020
Now that Anderson Cooper has called “bullshit” on Blagojevich, can we stop the media-enabler tour and call it his 15 minutes? Wishful thinking I know.
Rick Pearson
@rap30
Feb 13, 2021
IL Rep Adam Kinzinger, one of 10 Republican House members to vote to impeach: “I am disappointed that the Senate was unwilling to hold former President Trump accountable for his actions. And I will be looking at alternate options to ensure responsibility and accountability.”
Rick Pearson
@rap30
Jul 21, 2019
Replying to @rap30
The posting has been taken down. Story to come shortly.
Rick Pearson
@rap30
Aug 21, 2020
Kanye West kicked off Illinois presidential ballot on 8-0 vote of the State Board of Elections.
Rick Pearson
@rap30
Jul 21, 2019
Replying to @rap30
Head of the state GOP county chairmen’s association called the posting “unauthorized.” Then he explains how they have a “multi-stage, approval process for all social media posts on any of the RCCA’s social media properties.” The process, he said, is being “re-evaluated.”
Rick Pearson
@rap30
Feb 21, 2019
Snoop Dogg to headline Illinois State Fair. No doubt intensifies Gov. JB Pritzker’s call to legalize marijuana.
Rick Pearson
@rap30
Jul 24, 2018
Patti Blagojevich: “Little did we know how truly corrupt the Obama-era Justice Department and FBI really were.” Obama wasn’t president yet when Rod was arrested.
Patti Blagojevich: How our American dream turned into an American nightmare
From washingtonexaminer.com
Rick Pearson
@rap30
Apr 5, 2023
Brandon Johnson's victory represents a generational change in Chicago politics where Democratic mayors had adhered to a center/center right appeasement of the moneyed business community to a time of post-pandemic economic inequality and the rising power of public employee unions.
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